Books

‍‍‍Books by African American Authors

‍‍‍GUYS Read (Recommendations for great books)

‍‍‍‍American Literature (Read it online!)

‍‍‍GoodReads (Join this community of readers, and keep your own reading bookshhelf, rate books, talk about books, write reviews.)

‍‍‍Great Books: 101 titles recommended by College Board (creators of the SAT and AP exams)

‍‍‍Blogs

‍‍‍The Learning Network (from The New York Times--invites students to write and discuss articles/issues in the Times)

Teen Fiction Cafe (several young adult authors contribute to this blog)

‍‍‍Teen Reads (they have a recommended reading list--over 300 books)New York Times

‍‍‍Student Opinion: Students 13 and older are invited to comment on questions about issues in the news.

‍‍‍INKrethink (Peek inside the heads of nonfiction writers.)

‍‍‍Literary Writings

‍Cicada (Read and submit poetry and fiction!)

Thought Catalog - I just love this blog!

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‍‍‍Newspapers & Magazines & News Sources

Associated Press‍‍‍

NPR

The New Yorker

‍‍‍L.A. Times

‍‍‍New York Times

‍‍‍Time Magazine (check out their Top 100 People)

‍‍‍Newsweek

‍‍‍The New Yorker

‍‍‍College Times

CNN Student News

‍‍‍Washington Post

‍‍‍The Progressive

‍‍‍US News & World Report

‍‍‍Boys Life (Boy Scouts of America)

‍‍‍National Wildlife

‍‍‍Sports Illustrated

‍‍‍Seventeen‍‍

‍‍‍Opinions, Editorials, Debates

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‍Opposing Views

‍‍‍The New York Times

‍‍‍The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition

‍‍‍Current Events blog of Weekly Reader

‍‍‍The Economist ‍‍

‍‍‍Interesting Sites

‍‍‍ACT Question of the Day

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Great Visuals
National Geographic
Lens: The New York Times photo blog
Life
L.A. Times Photography
The Wall Street Journal
Photo Blog

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‍Essays & Speeches

• Letters from Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• How It Feels to Be Colored Me (Zora Neale Hurston)
• The Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln)
• The Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson)
• Shooting an Elephant (George Orwell)
• The Allegory of the Cave (Plato)
• A Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift)

‍‍‍‍‍Short Stories

• A list of tons of stories
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Lottery
• The Open Window
• The Birthmark
• The Black Cat
• The £1,000,000 Bank Note
• The Devil and Tom Walker
• The Minister's Black Veil
• The Story of an Hour
• The Birthmark
• The Story of an Hour

Classics & Other Good Reads (available free online)

• Daisy Miller
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Walden Pond
• Ethan Frome
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• A Room with a View
• Alice in Wonderland
• Animal Farm
• The Catcher and the Rye
• Of Mice and Men
• Brave New World
• Journey to the Centre of the Earth
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Frankenstein
• Dracula
• Gulliver's Travels
• Jane Eyre
• Emma
• Madame Bovary
• Heart of Darkness
• O Pioneers!
• The Age of Innocence
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Metamorphosis
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Secret Garden
• The Time Machine
• The Prince
• Wuthering Heights
• The Prince
• King Lear
• Taming of the Shrew
• Merchant of Venice
• Shanghai Girls
• The Federalist Papers
• The Importance of Being Earnest